Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Minister of Agriculture of and Rural Development, Dr Muhammad Abubakar and the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing are expected to lead conversation at the Feed Nigeria Summit.

The summit scheduled for 12th December this year, will focus on how to recalibrate the Nigerian economy using the advantages the agricultural sector and agribusiness ecosystem provides.

Director General of Feed Nigeria Summit Secretariat, Richard-Mark Mbaram, who stated this on Monday while addressing journalists, said the summit will also focus on the best way to deploy biotechnology which he said has contributed to the growth of agriculture in Africa, without leaving a mark on the environment.

He said having studied the global economic meltdown, it was realising that agriculture is the answer to this global economic crisis.

According to him, the world is much concerned about growing more food without having a negative impact on the environment which was part of the discussions at the concluded COP27.

“Biotechnology gives profound advantages on agricultural productivity. Biotechnology is needed to deploy appropriate measures to increase food production while also ensuring that the environment is safe.

“So, as the environment is pushing at the farmers, the farmers’ pushback becomes enhanced only if they have the backing of science, technology and innovation, and that is sitting in this year’s Feed Nigeria Summit as a thematic area.

“We now have a new agricultural policy in Nigeria and it focuses on the critical need of time, we just returned from Egypt for the COP27 and the core concern globally is how do we produce more food without leaving marks on the environment, and we are saying that in Nigeria the policy that we have in place now indicates that those who were behind it are visionaries, they knew that technology and innovation is at the core of providing the farmers, the stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem the tool that they require to meet this phenomenal challenge of increased productivity.

He, however , stated that the Summit will be setting up and calibrating the Deal Room with which the USAID Feed The Future is a partner in a manner that it provides support for the agricultural sector around financing.

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Anything that will make life easy for Nigerians is always welcome

The trip is a good step in the right direction for Nigeria. VP Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has been at the forefront of negotiating good opportunities for Nigerians at home and abroad. It is highly believed that at the end of this three-day trip, Nigerians in Canada will enjoy a good deal with the government and the people of Canada.

Buhari made the right choice to work with Osinbajo....

We believe in you ,we believe in your capacity and that's why you are being represented us

Life is always great with better things

A man of the people and the President Nigeria never had Osinbajo is a man of integrity and substance.

OSINBAJO is after the betterment of this country

Please invite NGOZI IWEALA, KEMI BADENOCH AND WALLY ADEYEMO AS OBSERVERS ONLY.

Prof will be greatly missed and that's a certainty.